diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-updatecli.yml b/.github/workflows/run-updatecli.yml
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+---
+name: Run updatecli
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 1 * * 1-5'
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - .github/workflows/updatecli/**
+      - .github/workflows/run-updatecli.yml
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  updatecli:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Select diff action
+        if: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
+        run: |
+          echo "UPDATECLI_ACTION=diff" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Select apply action
+        if: ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
+        run: |
+          echo "UPDATECLI_ACTION=apply" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+
+      - name: Install Updatecli in the runner
+        uses: updatecli/updatecli-action@2c3221bc5f4499a99fec2c87d9de4a83cb30e990 #v3.1.3
+
+      - name: Run updatecli
+        # --experimental needed for commitusingapi option.
+        run: updatecli --experimental ${{ env.UPDATECLI_ACTION }} --config .github/workflows/updatecli --values .github/workflows/updatecli/values.d/scm.yml
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/updatecli/updatecli.d/bump-package-registry-categories-version.yml b/.github/workflows/updatecli/updatecli.d/bump-package-registry-categories-version.yml
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+---
+name: Bump Package Registry categories version
+pipelineid: 'bump-package-registry-categories-version'
+
+actions:
+  default:
+    title: '[updatecli] Update Package Registry categories URL to {{ source "latestRegistryVersion" }}'
+    kind: github/pullrequest
+    scmid: default
+    spec:
+      labels:
+        - automation
+
+scms:
+  default:
+    kind: github
+    spec:
+      owner: '{{ .scm.owner }}'
+      repository: '{{ .scm.repository }}'
+      user: '{{ requiredEnv "GITHUB_ACTOR" }}'
+      username: '{{ requiredEnv "GITHUB_ACTOR" }}'
+      token: '{{ requiredEnv "GITHUB_TOKEN" }}'
+      commitusingapi: true
+      branch: main
+
+sources:
+  latestRegistryVersion:
+    name: Get latest Package Registry version
+    kind: json
+    spec:
+      file: https://api.github.com/repos/elastic/package-registry/releases/latest
+      key: .tag_name
+
+targets:
+  update-package-registry-categories-url:
+    name: '[updatecli] Update Package Registry categories URL to {{ source "latestRegistryVersion" }}'
+    kind: file
+    sourceid: latestRegistryVersion
+    scmid: default
+    spec:
+      file: code/go/internal/validator/semantic/validate_datastream_package_categories.go
+      matchpattern: 'package-registry/v[0-9\.]+/categories/categories\.yml'
+      replacepattern: 'package-registry/{{ source "latestRegistryVersion" }}/categories/categories.yml'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/updatecli/values.d/scm.yml b/.github/workflows/updatecli/values.d/scm.yml
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+---
+scm:
+  owner: elastic
+  repository: package-spec